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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract

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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

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There is a silence where hath been no sound There is a silence where no sound may be In the cold grave, under the deep deep sea

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We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

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Up above, what wind walks! What lovely behavior of silk-sack clouds has wilder, wilful, wavier, meal-drift molded over and melted across skies!

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What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

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all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

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I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.

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O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

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That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

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Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this; I want the one rapture of an inspiration. O then if in my lagging lines you miss

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April is the cruellest month.

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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In my beginning is my end.

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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